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Re: liberation packages as a dependency for firefox ESR
From:
Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:09:37 -0700
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Piruthiviraj Natarajan
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Why does firefox pulls these packages as dependency?
>
> liberation-fonts-common   noarch   1.05.1.20090721-5.el6   sl             20 k
> liberation-sans-fonts     noarch   1.05.1.20090721-5.el6   sl            274 k
>
> Before firefox 10.0.8-1, firefox didn't have these liberation packages as
> dependencies.
> Why now?
>
> Its the same story in CentOS too.

firefox requires xulrunner. xulrunner requires the above 2 packages.
Apparently the font requirement was added recently as seen in the
changelog of xulrunner:

* Thu Aug 16 2012 Martin Stransky <[log in to unmask]> 10.0.6-2
- Added fix for rhbz#770276 - Firefox segfaults, should
  have a font dependency

More details can be found in the referenced BZ:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770276

Akemi

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